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Rhizomic Research is a dynamic consultancy for the 21st century that offers content-oriented texts, lectures, presentations, courses, and policy advice on the grand societal challenges of today. Rosi Braidotti and Anneke Smelik have over forty years of experience as researchers, writers, teachers, and lecturers. They combine visionary insights with rigorous knowledge, and activist aspirations.
In today’s information overload they help you select and assess credible, valuable, scientific knowledge from fake news and half-truths. They specialize in the field of posthuman scholarship with a special focus on advanced technology, climate change, and social and economic justice. The posthuman approach ensures a vision that includes the non-humans, such as animals, bacteria, viruses, as well as the internet of things, robots and cyborgs.
Strongly believing in an affirmative approach to the grand challenges of today, they offer intellectual guidance, mentorship, and instruction. Despair is not a project, affirmation is!
About Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti is a feminist Continental philosopher and Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Main publications: Nomadic Subjects (2011a), and Nomadic Theory.(2011b), Columbia University Press. The Posthuman, 2013, Posthuman Knowledge, 2019; Posthuman Feminism, 2022 Polity Press. The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022), Bloomsbury Academic. www.rosibraidotti.com
Rosi Braidotti is universiteitshoogleraar emerita aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Ze ontving eredoctoraten van de Universiteiten van Helsinki en Linkoping en is een Fellow van de Australian Academy of the Humanities, lid van de Academia Europaea en Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw. Recente publicaties: Nomadic Subjects (2011) en Nomadic Theory (2011) (Columbia UP) en The Posthuman (2013) en Posthuman Knowledge (2019) (Polity). In 2018 redigeerde ze met Maria Hlavajova The Posthuman Glossary (Bloomsbury Academic) en in 2022 More Posthuman Glossary met Emily Jones en Goda Klumbyte. www.rosibraidotti.com
About Anneke Smelik
Anneke Smelik is Professor of Visual Culture at the Radboud University Nijmegen, where she is coordinator of the MA programme ‘Creative Industries’. She published widely on identity, body, memory and technology in cinema, videoclips, digital art, and fashion. Her most recent books include Delft Blue to Denim Blue. Contemporary Dutch Fashion; Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture; Thinking Through Fashion. A Guide to Key Theorists; and a book in Dutch on cyborgs in popular culture.
Her current research focuses on fashion theory, and fashion and social and environmental sustainability.